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Title: Early Explorers


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Early Explorers
  • First Steps in a New Land
  • p. 102 - 105

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How did the Natives get to America?
Bering Strait
3
Columbus Sights a New World
  • After sailing for 33 days, Christopher Columbus
    spotted several islands in the Caribbean Sea.
    (1492)
  • While searching for a new route to Asia, Columbus
    had reached a new continent unknown in Europe.
  • Columbus was an Italian, sailing under the flag
    of Spain.
  • In the years following the first voyage, Spain
    established an empire in what came to be known as
    America.

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New Spain
  • Spanish soldiers, conquistadors, sought riches
    and power for themselves and wealth and glory for
    Spain. 3Gs- God, Gold, and Glory
  • The conquistadors made it possible for others to
    follow after them and build towns, lay roads,
    open mines, and develop farms and ranches.
  • Friars, members of Catholic religious orders,
    helped convert Native Americans to the Catholic
    faith.
  • Friars established religious outposts called
    missions.

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Cortes Lands in Mexico
  • In 1519, Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba and
    landed on the eastern coast of Mexico.
  • On his way to the capital, Tenochtitlan, Cortes
    persuaded thousands of suppressed Native
    Americans (Aztecs) to rebel against their ruler.
  • At first the Aztecs welcomed Cortes because they
    believed he was their legendary god Quetzalcoatl.
  • To control the city, Cortes took the emperor,
    Moctezuma, hostage.
  • The Aztecs rebelled and killed Moctezuma.

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Cortes Lands in Mexico
  • Cortes and his forces tore down Tenochtitlan and
    built a new city named Mexico, after the Aztec
    name for themselves.
  • Mexico City became the capital for New Spain.
  • The success of Cortes inspired other Spaniards to
    come to the Americas in search of treasure,
    adventure, or to spread the Catholic faith among
    the Native Americans.

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Alvarez de Pineda Explores Texas
  • In 1519, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda became the
    first European to explore the Texas coast.
  • He sailed along the
  • uncharted coastline
  • from Florida to
  • Mexico, he observed
  • and mapped the land.

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Shipwrecked in Texas
  • Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was part of an
    expedition to conquer the area between Florida
    and Mexico in 1527.
  • The expedition failed and a storm grounded Cabeza
    de Vaca on an island near present-day Galveston.
    He called the island Malhado, the isle of
    misfortune.
  • The Karankawas, who lived on the coast, built
    fires and brought food to the starving explorers.
  • Within a few months, however, most of the
    explorers and many Native Americans had died of
    diseases.

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Shipwrecked in Texas
  • In time, Native Americans would associate
    Europeans with disease and find both unwelcome.
  • Cabeza de Vaca survived by adopting the ways of
    the Karankawas.
  • He became highly regarded as a shaman, or healer.
  • One of his companions, Estevanico, from Morocco,
    became the first known black man to enter Texas.
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